n. | 1. | A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat. |
2. | Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced. | |
3. | A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university. | |
4. | Seminal state. | |
5. | Fig.: A seed bed; a source. | |
6. | A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist. | |
a. | 1. | Belonging to seed; seminal. |
Noun | 1. | seminary - a private place of education for the young |
2. | seminary - a theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis |